Addresses from Sister Societies 259 



THE CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY 



To THE American Philosophical Society, 



COMMEMORATING THE TWO-HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 

 OF THE BIRTH OF ITS FOUNDER, APRIL 1906. 



Gentlemen : 



The Connecticut Historical Society has done me, as 

 its President, the honor of designating me to represent it, 

 in accordance with your kind invitation, at the com- 

 memorative exercises of this week; and as I am pre- 

 vented from attending until the closing days, I desire 

 to ofifer you our congratulations in written words. 



That which has been accomplished by your Society 

 in more than eight score years of honored history might 

 well call for recognition from any who at all know the 

 value of such work as that to which you are devoted and 

 its influence on the intellectual and moral progress of 

 our land; but you are rightly seeking now " consecrare 

 origines et ad deos referre auctoris." And if the his- 

 torian of Rome could claim that her annals would justify 

 her in making any assertion whatever as to the dignity 

 of her foundation, we cannot be amiss in confessing that 

 you are worthy to have had Franklin for your founder 

 and that in celebrating his birth you are honoring both 



